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: Saudis won’t even debate whether to let women drive:
All he was asking, says Mohammad al-Zulfa, was that his fellow legislators think – just think – about studying the possibility of allowing women – not all of them, just some – to drive.
But circumspect though he was, he has touched off a fierce controversy, pitting women’s rights campaigners against conservatives who believe that lifting Saudi Arabia’s ban on women drivers is un-Islamic and will lead to permissiveness.